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A Friendly Adsense Reminder About Policy-Compliant Images and Videos
The image and video content that you embed in your blogs/websites that run Adsense units may conflict with Adsense program policies. Hence, the Inside AdSense...
Google Picasa Rumored to Be Coming to Mac OS X
According to the folks over at Wired, a Google employee confirmed that a version of Picasa for Mac OS X is presently in the works,...
5 More Free Tools To Improve Search Engine Optimization
As we mentioned in our last article, 5 Free Search Engine Optimization Tools Available Online, analytics can be a great way to evaluate and improve...
Google Directory Shows True PageRank of Penalized Pages
Recently there has been some talk about the Google Directory, which is powered by Netscape’s Open Directory Project (DMOZ), updated on January 8th and is...
Google Wants Patent Invalidated
Responding to a patent infringement lawsuit filed against them by Northeastern University and semantic search vendor Jarg, Google has said that the patent was wrongly...
Local Search Engine Grayboxx Finally Goes National
Online local search firm Grayboxx which was succeedingly rolled out in 5 major cities the past five months has finally come out of the box...
Google and Clearwire Reach Collaboration Agreement
Top broadband service provider Clearwire is teaming up with Google to provide popular Google Apps communication to Clearwire customers. In the first half of the...
Google Account Consolidation – Real World Security Concerns – An Involuntary Case Study
About Security There are rarely talks about security breaches and problems that did or could result from those breaches in the public. The reason for...
New Trademark Lawsuit Could Impact Search Marketing
1-800-Contacts has filed a lawsuit in federal court against LensWorld for buying search links that were triggered by the keyword “1-800-contacts.” 1-800-contacts has filed several...
SEMMYS : 14 SEJ Entries Nominated for Best in Search Engine Marketing
Matt McGee of SmallBusinessSEM has put together a masterful awards competition for the best blog posts in search engine marketing; The SEMMYS (get it? SEM...
Pepperjam Network Launches : Affiliate Network Built by Affiliates & Search Marketers
Kris Jones emailed us this week to let us know that PepperJam is launching Pepperjam Network today, a new affiliate network which the company has...
Paid Links : Do You Report Them?
Patrick Altoft is hosting a poll on whether or not search marketers report paid linking. Patrick admits that he usually only reports paid links “only...
Gmail for the iPhone Gets Two New Features
iPhone users would be delighted to know of two new nifty features of Gmail in their mobile devices. Gmail for iPhone enhances iPhone users’ Gmail...
MediaWhiz Merges AuctionAds Into ShoppingAds
This month MediaWhiz, which acquired AuctionAds from ShoeMoney Media last year, merged their AuctionAds and ShoppingAds products into one product, dropping the AuctionAds name and...
Microsoft’s Targeted Shopping Cart Advertising, Innovation or an Act of Desperation?
ShopRite shoppers will soon be treated to a slew of advertisements while doing their shopping at ShopRite outlets. Thanks to a partnership between Microsoft, MediaCart...
Class Action Lawsuit Filed Against Ask.com For Failure to Prevent Click Fraud
Ask.com is apparently being sued in a class action lawsuit for “failing to adequately detect and stop ‘click fraud’ or other invalid or improper clicks...
First Google Android Prototype Phone Completed
A La Mobile, a San Ramon, Calif. based start-up dedicated to Linux-based open systems for mobile devices, will reveal today plans to unveil a suite...
Traffic to Google from iPhones Reaches “Impressive Levels”
It turns out that Google’s iPhone gamble is paying off in a pretty noticeable way. Despite the phone’s relatively low market share, the New York...
Professor Bans Google & Wikipedia : Encourages Critical Thinking & Research
Professor Brabazon of the University of Brighton is doing her best to break student dependency of the ‘University of Google’, that is trusting the first...
Collaborative Blog Search with BlogDigger
RSS and blog search engine BlogDigger provides services such as media search, link search and grouping of blog results. Media search pertains to RSS feeds...
Google Boots IncrediMail from AdSense Program
IncrediMail revealed today that they had received a notification from Google indicating that they had been dismissed from the Google AdSense program. Upon the announcement...
Can Semantic Search Ensure a More Secure Web?
The Web experienced a roller-coaster ride in 2007 with Social Networking emerging as the happening area. More and more user activity moving to the clouds...
Adwords Tweaked Conversion Optimizer for Profit Increase
The Conversion Optimizer introduced by Google AdWords in September is now out of beta. Along with this development are some improvements that would benefit AdWords...
Yahoo Serving Images in Sponsored Search Listings
Yahoo Search Marketing is testing the serving of images embedded within their sponsored search results on Yahoo Directory pages. The images, which are being supplied...
Microsoft & Library of Congress Team Up to Support New Interactive Experience for Visitors
Today, Microsoft Corp. and the Library of Congress made a joint announcement indicating that they have signed a cooperative agreement that will make the Library’s...
Yahoo Software Will Work on Rival Google’s Mobile Programs
This week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Yahoo revealed that they will provide software that allows independent developers and companies build programs...
Weather Channel Adds Weather to Google Maps
The Weather Channel Interactive, Inc. has launched a new mapplet for Google Maps, which makes weather conditions available on the map with one click. Additionally,...
PredictAd’s Search Auto-Complete Pays on CPC, What’s the Catch?
PredictAd is a fairly new product that offers bloggers/web site owners a new way to earn additional income. By adding a short code into a...
Ask.com Names New CEO Jim Safka, Replacing Jim Lanzone
IAC made an interesting move today, replacing one of the head figures responsible for taking Ask.com out of the search spammy shadow of Jeeves, and...
Do Not Hire an SEO Company!
As the owner of an SEO company it is somewhat contradicting to write such an article. However, there are many times when a company or...